In our Gala Concert at Cadogan Hall on 16 October, we celebrate not only some masterworks of 20^th century choral composition but also some ‘firsts’: the world première performance of our first commission to Zoe Dixon as our first-ever Composer-in-Association.

Zoe Dixon has shown a life-long interest in music and has been rapidly developing as a composer and pianist since early childhood. She had her first formal composition tuition at the Royal Birmingham Junior Conservatoire from 2015-2018, during which she was exposed to a wide range of contemporary styles of music and sound art, and was privileged to continue her composition studies under Robert Saxton and Thomas Hyde at Oxford University, graduating with a first-class degree in Music in 2021.

Zoe is influenced by a diverse collection of musical styles, especially certain strands of European art music that co-existed uneasily in the first half of the 20^th century. Her work is also shaped by her experience as a choral scholar in the choir of Worcester College Chapel. For our Gala, Zoe has set words from Psalm 95 for double choir, ‘O come, let us sing to the Lord’, as a celebratory piece to open our programme.

You can read more about our Gala programme at this linked blog item and buy tickets from Cadogan Hall by clicking here.